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MSE Parents Club Part 9

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  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    I am so shoite with my finances! Weezlie and SM would have a fit!!!

    whats this i hear??? bad finances??? :naughty:;) :rotfl:..

    just got back from picking up zoe and although she had a good day yesterday with her work she slipped alittle today so shes only allowed her camera back but still in her room at 5pm .. i started to really not know what to do with her and her work x
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • jillie1974
    jillie1974 Posts: 6,997 Forumite
    hi jam!!

    she's silmilar to Kian so . he was 13lb 11oz yesterday

    hope you can get a photo taken!!
    'Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded'
  • Krystaltips
    Krystaltips Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    Once breastfeeding is well established you can go on any pill... It's only in the early days the combination of hormones can have an effect on supply...

    Mfd, I'd eat the curry...
    A very proud Mummy to 3 beautiful girls... I do pity my husband though, he's the one to suffer the hormones...
    Krystal is so smart and funny and wonderful I am struck dumb in awe in her presence.

  • Once breastfeeding is well established you can go on any pill... It's only in the early days the combination of hormones can have an effect on supply...

    Mfd, I'd eat the curry...

    Have I told you lately that I love you?




    Jam - the earlier you try and start getting her to sleep on her own the better IMHO.
    r.mac wrote: »
    please listen to MFD - she is a wise woman :D
    Proud Mummy to the gorgeous Benjamin John born 14 March 2009, 8lbs 14oz
    A new little seedling on the way, due 30 September 2012
  • Krystal I didn't know that. I had assumed the hormones had an effect on baby.

    I look like a teenager at the mo - covered in spots. Bloody hormones. Added to that, I haven't brushed my hair today, or washed it since the weekend. Minging. (And the less said about the state of my legs and armpits the better...) Maybe I need that ugly picture Beanie! I have had 2 baths this week though. Luxury! I normally end up having a quick wash in the sink, as we don't have a shower, and baths take too much time. But now Izzy is going to bed with less fuss I'm taking some proper me time (well, me and mother and baby magazine anyway) for a soak :)
    :heart:Isabella Molly born 14th January 2009:heart:
    New challenge for 2011 - saving up vouchers to pay for Chistmas!
    Amazon £48.61 Luncheon Vouchers £24
  • SusanC_2
    SusanC_2 Posts: 5,344 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    BeenieCat wrote: »
    I keep wondering when i should be expecting a period, is it true that bf'ing delays it?

    I stopped bleeding completely when she was 2 weeks old, and it was v.light throughout - not how i remembered it being after DS :eek:
    Some people it does and some people it doesn't. If you are breastfeeding, the earlier it comes back, the more likely you are to be having anovulatory cycles.
    Okay, slightly related question....I have loads of sanitary towels leftover that I bought before I had baby to use for bleeding but didn't need. I always use tampons and so do all my friends, should I save them for possible next baby or donate them to somewhere?
    Do you have any pregnant friends? Or offer them on Freecycle?
    Periods - most recommend using pads for the first period, I assume I'm exempt from that as it has been 9 months since I gave birth? if/when I get a period, can I use tampons?
    I used tampons - I couldn't find any information to say you shouldn't.
    SugarSpun wrote: »
    I totally agree - if a child isn't invited, then you make other arrangements which may involve not going. You don't call the couple lots of unpleasant names and send a revenge gift, and you don't take the kids on the assumption that their names were just left off the invitation.
    Those people sound childish themselves - maybe the children should have been invited instead of them. Alice's name wasn't on the first invitation but that was because she hadn't been born. (But we had been told she was invited - we didn't just assume.)
    Everyone had said the first one was a killer, but mine wasn't too bad - I normally get quite bad period pains, and I got some, but not as bad as normal (from what I remember!)... or maybe having a baby has made me a bit less of a big softie? It was quite heavy, but didn't last any longer than normal.
    :eek: I didn't know the first period was supposed to be worse than usual - mine was totally pain free which was a great relief as mine used to be so bad the pain would wake me up in the night even with the maximum allowed painkillers.
    Any question, comment or opinion is not intended to be criticism of anyone else.
    2 Samuel 12:23 Romans 8:28 Psalm 30:5
    "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die"
  • Ladybird- having a soak in the bath has to be the biggest Mummy luxury ever! I love to hand LO over to OH of an evening and read my book in the bath! How do you live without a shower though :eek:. I'm not awake till I've had a shower in the morning.

    I'm just powering through some dooyoo reviews as I have some points on there that expire soon, apparently, and I don't want to lose them!
    :DYummy mummy, runner, baker and procrastinator :p
  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    gisi how does dooyoo work? x
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • Sami_Bee
    Sami_Bee Posts: 14,555 Forumite
    H+Care wipes- a bit of a random one but they came in the Emma's Diary bag. They are moist toilet tissue for people with piles :o. Thanks to my c-section I have no use for them, but happy to discretely pass them on to anyone who has (and is too embarrassed to buy such a thing in the shops).
    are piles the same as hemerroids? if so and the wipes have treatment stuff in them you could use the wipes on your eye bags on days your suffering from lack of sleep :cool:
    The very best is sometimes what nature gives us for free.
    3onitsway wrote: »
    I think Sami is right, as always!
  • Glamazon
    Glamazon Posts: 8,401 Forumite
    Sami_Bee wrote: »
    sorry missed the red before. no actual made up milk.
    I used to wash and sterilise 6 bottles then put the hot water and powder in, shake 'em up and stick them in the fridge, I think Glam cools hers in a sink of cold water before putting the fridge but I didn't

    yes I do cos I make them with boiling water. not good when u shake & forget to put the lid on properly :cool:
    jillie1974 wrote: »
    K has just drained a 7ox bottle, first time in bout 2 weeks! looks tired after that so popping him in his cot

    so did J :T followed by 3/4 of a bowl of sweet potato before he feel asleep! I thought he would sleep in the sling but it seems Wazza town centre is to interesting. I talk to J all the time & in each bank I told him what bank it was, everytime I said bank he was laughing his head off! *confused*
    JAM1376 wrote: »
    Afternoon all

    Well Charly is now 13lb12 at 18 weeks - not had her weighed for 6 weeks and only gonna go every month from now on.

    Sleep didn't go well last night, she woke almost every half hour until 12.30 when I gave up and brought her in with me. At 18 weeks, she isn't too young to do the pick up/put down thing is she? Leave her while she whinges and only pick up if she really cries/screams, don't speak to her and put her down as soon as she stops? Any advice if this is the way to go?

    Hugs to all xxx

    PS Want to try and post a pic - will see if I can sort it if she stays quiet in her swing.

    Jam - I tried doing this a few times from around 12weeks. I got really impatient though so each attempt didnt last long :o. It was only just before his jabs last week that he would settle himself.

    sami - yes it is the 12th, 12-2pm.

    I'm not on any pill :shhh: :o
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
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